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Medicines ingested had tells- learning to detect traces of it in bodily fluids informed him of what systems handled the drug, and how it came out in waste. Haruto did not recognize the scent of what tainted the pack's urine, but he could tell it must be something herbal in their diet. The cacti, perhaps? The succulents? His first hypothesis was that the wolves in the desert turned to vegetation to supplement their diet, if prey was not easily found- but he realized a moment later that it could also be where they sought hydration. 

But something about the scent, didn't simply smell like plant, it smelled like-

The study abruptly finished, and he shook his head to bring himself back to reality. Had he been that lost in his thoughts, or had the scent in the urine caused him to lose awareness of his surroundings? 

Backwards he stumbled, hocks smacking together as he spun up a small cloud of dust. He flinched as he barely brushed against a jumping cholla, and let out a small cry as a barbed fruit dug its hooked spines into his flank, pulled from the spiny plant. He grimaced as he glanced at it, and then back to the woman who had surprised him, flattening his ears and shrinking toward the ground, squinting as the prickly fruit pulled at his skin. 

H-H-H- He stuttered, before he came to the assumption that she wouldn't care what his name was. His name meant little, now, especially given the destruction of his family. N-Nobody, He murmured quietly.